Foreign Affairs committee  It is a wide range of skills. Often those programs respond to client needs. There may be some circumstances, though, where mining companies set up their own training programs for industry-specific skills training. In fact, having self-government agreements widespread in the north

Foreign Affairs committee  The Diavik diamond mine does extensive skills training with the Inuit participants as well as with the first nations participants. You'd also see the same in Baker Lake with the Meadowbank mine.

Foreign Affairs committee  I've looked at it to a certain degree. The indigenous populations in the north are quite different. We share some commonalities with the Inuit in Greenland, for instance, and the Inuit population of Alaska. The indigenous peoples in Russia are probably at a different state. Then

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not really that familiar with the programs in the United States or Denmark.

Foreign Affairs committee  As I mentioned before, when you talk about impact benefit agreements, they are actually private contracts between the company and, in this case, the Inuit beneficiary in the circumstance of the Meadowbank mine in Baker Lake. Those are private agreements, not disclosed.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. I used to be a director with HRSDC in the aboriginal skills and development portfolio. You probably know that this government, through HRSDC, has a suite of different programs and training initiatives both in the north and also across Canada. In a general sense, the

National Defence committee  No, I don't have that kind of detail either, but I understand that DFAIT are coming before you, are they not?

National Defence committee  For both of those, whether it's the marine shipping assessment or the oil and gas report, they're generally part of subcommittee structures under the Arctic Council, and Canada has contributed to the development of the recommendations and also the background diagnostic.

National Defence committee  We've been tracking this issue for a while. As Danielle mentioned earlier, we have some machinery in place. We have committee structures in place, mostly at the assistant deputy minister level, as well as the deputy minister level. That has been following and tracking this initia